Stellar Blade is a 2024 action-adventure video game developed by Shift Up and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. Players take command of protagonist Eve as she ventures to save humanity from a relentless war waged by monstrous creatures in a distant future. Throughout her journey, Eve is accompanied by her squad and survivors to take back Earth.
Shift Up, a Korean studio founded by Kim Hyung Tae, first teased the game under the working title Project Eve in 2019. By 2021, it was revealed as a PlayStation 5 exclusive to be published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. In 2022, the game was officially titled Stellar Blade.
Following a delay from its planned 2023 release, Stellar Blade was released for the PlayStation 5 on April 26, 2024. The game received generally positive reviews from critics, with praise being directed at its visuals and combat with criticism being directed at its story.
Gameplay
Stellar Blade is an action-adventure video game set in a post-apocalyptic Earth and played from a third-person perspective. Combat focuses on grasping the attack patterns of enemies and countering with precise timing. Eve's Beta Gauge is filled by parrying and evading in combat. The Beta Gauge is spent to use skills such as piercing super armor and enemy combo interruption. Eve also has a Burst Gauge filled through successive parries and combos, which can be used to activate buffs and powerful attacks. The game utilizes the PlayStation 5 DualSense controller's haptic feedback to deliver feedback on enemy attacks and weapon accuracy. Exploration features wall scaling and swinging on ropes for environmental traversal, with things to be found including extra costumes. The overworld has NPCs who can provide Eve with side quests, with the option of either taking them on or ignoring them.
Story
Setting
Humanity is driven from Earth after a losing war against monstrous creatures called Naytibas. To reclaim their lost home, Eve and her squad are deployed from the Colony to fight the Naytiba and to take back Earth. Eventually, Eve meets two survivors named Adam and Lily, and settles into Xion, humanity's last surviving city on Earth. Eve then makes contact with the elder Orcal and establishes relationships with the residents of Xion, in order to further her mission to save humanity and reclaim Earth.
Synopsis
The Colony sends the 7th Airborne Squad in its latest attempt to liberate Earth from the Naytiba. However, the invasion ends in disaster with Eve being the sole survivor of the landing force, and with her close friend Tachy sacrificing herself to protect her from an unidentified Alpha Naytiba. She is saved by Adam, a scavenger who enlists her aid in recovering a Hyper Cell power source from the ruined megacity of Eidos 7. In return, Adam leads Eve to a nearby Alpha Naytiba for her to slay. After eliminating the Alpha Naytiba, Eve comes across a survivor of the 5th Airborne Squad, Lily, who decides to join Eve as her engineering support. Adam then takes both of them to Xion, the last human city on Earth, and requests their aid in saving Xion. Eve then meets Xion's leader Orcal, who explains that in addition to the Hyper Cell she recovered from Eidos 7, three more Hyper Cells will be needed to restore Xion to its full functionality. Not only will this allow him to revive the tens of thousands of humans kept in stasis within the city, but also to locate other Alpha Naytibas. Orcal further explains that four Alpha Naytiba Cores will be needed to form a Master Core, which will allow access into the Naytibas' Nest where their leader, the Elder Naytiba, resides.
After recovering the second Hyper Cell, Orcal informs Eve about the location of the second Alpha Core, and becomes devastated upon learning that Tachy was transformed into an Alpha Naytiba, forcing her to kill her and retrieve her core. Once the third Hyper Cell is recovered, the team recovers a recording from a previous Airborne Squad member named Raven who alleges that what they currently believe is humanity is actually a race of advanced human-like androids called Andro-Eidos and that the Naytibas are actually the original human race after they resorted to radical genetic modification. Orcal confirms that long ago their leader, the AI Mother Sphere, created the Andro-Eidos at humanity's behest and both races lived in peace. However, Mother Sphere suddenly ordered the Andro-Eidos to exterminate humanity and rewrote history to fool the Andro-Eidos into believing they are humans.
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